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i thought 'india' here indicate china before i clicked in.


still going?


most chinese people have no interest in those who started the first civilization. in fact most of them there have to work about 12~14 hours a day and have no ability to spend any time to 'think' and 'assert'.

only a few people there that have higher position and get well educated that know a little about the very old times... and most of them believe Egipt or middle east started the first civilization because that's what the schools there teach.


You probably tried to write something out of compassion for those tired Chinese workers, but what you actually wrote appear as insensitively dismissive (an average poor guy at an assembly line absolute have abilities to think). And more importantly I don't think it's correct. Most people, even those who do have plenty of spare time, don't dig archeology, or fact-based history that much. History as a part of identity is a different story, and many are very emotionally invested in it, and from my experience in Far East cultures especially so. So 'most Chinese people' may not look interested, but only before somebody tells them they are not that ancient.


I'm glad that the schools are teaching scientific truth then. It doesn't really matter what lineage is older, and the cutoff is arbitrary anyway. But teaching historical facts that disagree with nationalistic and party narratives is a good barometer for respect for science itself, which is very important.


interesting


some days ago when i was trying to copy some icons from ytb i found this tool. Really good job!


your GitHub account is not yours but GitHub's property, they just do not claim that before they ban your account.

All cloud services do the similar things.


This isn’t how it works at all. It’s not how copyright law works, it’s not how property law works, and it’s certainly not how cloud services work.

What isn’t yours is your “right” to use the service.


Have you read the project’s license? That is literally how it works. It’s not even an original project by Marak, as it’s clearly shown in there.

The only fault here is cutting the owner out of the repo, but given the security breach it’s strange that he isn’t permanently banned at all.

And yeah, adding an infinite loop is a DoS attack.

> not how cloud services work.

Try placing a virus on S3 and let me know how that works out.


I’m not defending the author. GitHub is in their right to do what they did. But certainly not because of the nonsense GP claims. And yes you can host viruses on S3. What you can’t do is use Amazon’s network to do illegal shit (such as distribute viruses without consent).


Obviously I mean to distribute viruses via S3, which is what’s happening here. Your account is guaranteed to be flagged as soon as they find out. The update here was distributed to every subscriber.


What's your point? That doing illegal shit will strip you of your rights?

You know, I hear that if you go around stabbing people, you lose the right to not spend a bunch of time in prison, too.


not to mention that in the case of colors.js he actually owned less copyright than other contributors. they had actually changed more of the code.


What I learned is that GitHub is no longer a reasonable place to hold your personal source codes, no matter it's private or public. github is still a good place as a platform to show yourself, but it's never home like place where you hide.

YOUR ACCOUNT IS NOT YOUR ACCOUNT BUT SOME PROPERTY OF GITHUB (or Microsoft).

Since the cloud services (not only GitHub) are increasingly unreliable these days, maybe we should think more before choose to use them.


it's tencent, not China - tencent just find a smart way to collect personal data.

some giants like Tencent or Huawei or Alibaba, etc are always trying to collect citizens' personal data like your face id, your voices, you phone number, .... everything related to you.


Tencent, for all intents and purposes, IS the CCP.

They must act according to the CCP's dictates.


no, ccp is not kind of omnipotent power, especially for companies in south China like Tencent (which located in Shenzheng, Guangdong province) ccp ‘s control is weak.

ccp is evil but at least not worse than tencent


covid-19 is not an issue now... it's a disaster but a solved disaster.


It's not solved until the global number of people with COVID is low enough that COVID doesn't significantly mutate in the time that it takes to vaccinate the entire world with a compatible vaccine.

Currently more people have COVID than at any point in the past [1]. This means COVID is evolving faster, as it has more chances to mutate. The danger of a new vaccine evading strain emerging is increasing along with the number of global infections. There's a risk that the rate of mutation accelerates to the point where we can't get updated vaccines into people fast enough.

It's sobering that only 4% of the world has been fully vaccinated in 4 months [2] and the job will get more difficult once all the easy to access people are done.

[1] Assuming cases in a 2 week period is a rough proxy for number of currently infected people. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...


Tell that to people of India


No. Maybe for some countries. But it's far from over.


good!


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